Chapter 386: Expulsion

The stationed mechanical constructs lowered their heads and observed the appearance of the invaders.

Observing these creatures with dark brown thorny fur coming out of the forest: they were wearing thick forged steel armor and holding long swords or spears that flashed with cold light.

There were also big goblins holding spears in their hands, following behind them.

Gnolls.

It didn't need to know the other party's name, it only knew that it should follow the garrison orders given to it by the officers.

Their mission was to garrison this wasteland while the hunters were moving, and kill hostile targets they had never seen.

The airborne steam boiler started, and the arc spear was charged.

The flickering light was like a bright blue flame.

The enemy was five medium-sized units and one hundred and fifty small spear-wielding units.

The 'scarecrows' slowly moved forward in the field full of rare plants, reducing the damage to the rare plants born in the field.

This was why they were transferred to garrison the plants, not the steam spiders.

Steam mechs can cross fields with less collateral damage due to their humanoid structure, unlike steam spiders with lower chassis, which will break all bushes and plants on the route once they charge.

They are the best for guarding... a medium-sized structure with non-contact attack at medium and close range.

The jackal team stared at the five machines that began to linger with light, and wanted to slowly retreat into the forest... to avoid alarming these steels to make more dangerous actions.

They moved forward with their slightly slender mechanical feet, and everyone in the team knew that these monsters were paying attention to themselves.

"Damn it!"

The jackal captain looked at the structures that were only a few centimeters taller than him, thinking that these were the machines that wiped out the monsters.

Hold your breath and concentrate.

The arc flashed and burst when it hit a jackal scout, tearing the air and separating a new arc that directly hit the goblin standing aside, holding an iron spear stupidly.

The big goblin should have dropped the weapon and turned to run away with its companions.

But perhaps it was shocked by the roar and hiss of the moving steel, or perhaps it was because it saw several three-meter-tall gnoll captains standing still.

It did not run away, and therefore lost its life.

Whether it was the gnolls or the big goblins, the iron weapons in their hands were excellent targets for the arcs that pierced the air.

Starting with the gun-shaped arc generator and ending with the iron spear.

The arc forked, penetrated the target, and destroyed the nerves.

Scorched the flesh and blood.

The gnoll captain stood there, watching the arc carbonize a goblin who didn't even have time to scream and was attracted by the trees.

The blazing blue arc projected its remaining energy on the trees like a long blade, and the current dissociated the air and released ozone with a hint of freshness that penetrated the sensitive noses of the gnolls.

He already knew how the carbonized black marks on the trees next to the white ash were produced.

Smoldering fear enveloped its brain, gnawing at the courage of this alien species.

Escape, must escape.

Unable to fight, unable to resist.

The gnoll captain took a deep breath,

A long spear fell, piercing the gnoll captain beside him and the trees behind him, and the flashing arc destroyed life.

The iron spear smashed the flesh and blood together with the forged steel armor, piercing through and spilling dirty blood on the ground.

What happened?

The mechanical construct strode forward and rushed up to tear and kill a gnoll captain who was in a sluggish state due to the arc.

He turned around and wanted to escape.

Must, must return to the territory as quickly as possible to tell the tribe leader.

Fifty meters, one hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters.

The huge figure of the gnoll captain crashed in the forest, bringing up a cloud of dust and debris.

A sharp scream belonging to the goblin sounded, and the gnoll captain did not stop his steps, observing the captured green monster with his peripheral vision.

"Save me, save me - you said you would protect me!"

It begged the gnolls to come back and rescue it. Goblins did not have the natural flexibility and speed of gnolls to quickly pass through bushes and green forests.

The chief promised them that the gnolls would be the vanguard, and the goblin mages only needed to wave their staffs behind them to cast spells.

The screams stopped abruptly, and he saw with his peripheral vision that the goblin caster's head was flowing like a piece of broken tofu in the palm of the steel monster.

How did they catch these goblin mages...

How could it be possible...they were clearly moving so slowly in the flower field.

It looked at the steam machine soldiers striding behind it in astonishment, measuring the speed of both sides in its mind...it could not catch up with itself, and the gnolls only needed a little time to pull away.

An electric arc passed through the trees and locked onto the armor of the jackal captain. After hitting the armor, the current penetrated into the central nerve and began to spread... Metal is the favorite conductor of electric arcs and the best indicator.

Not too strong current can temporarily paralyze the mobility of the person hit... They raised their arms equipped with hydraulics and crushed their lives.

Paralyzed, cleared.

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"Well, this route is correct after all."

The company commander tapped the drawn map with the tip of his pen. This map, which was drawn continuously as the survey progressed, gradually formed an exploration map of the territory. The hunters who were mobilized advanced in three directions.

There is no difference in the geographical environment of the three directions.

Beyond the coast, there are large tracts of dense forests, hiding a large number of monster nests and camps.

Because it is on the way, they will clear all the visible camps on the target path as they move forward. No matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still resources.

As long as the escapers point out a clear direction for them, the fleet will follow the blood trail and then find the alien camps.

Destroy them.

A large-scale population gathering place has no way to hide its whereabouts.

Cooking smoke, water sources, activities.

And they did not find Jilin territory only because there are a lot of mountains blocking in the middle. A distance of 100 kilometers is not considered a passing of two cities.

Geographically, they are not far apart.

These camps that are quite close to the territory are tests left by the system. Every lord can use these alien camps to hone his own troops.

They are not so strong that the lords cannot resist them, and they will not suffer heavy losses if they are not careful, but these alien camps also maintain enough combat power for the lords to think about how to deal with them.

Except for Ji Lin, he has never thought about large-scale external expansion, even though the population has grown to 20,000... and will grow to 100,000 in the future.

He also decided to run his place, which can be truly called a "city".

His development is not normal development.

Abnormal development also has its own normal route.

The captain raised the telescope produced by the territory in his hand.

Although the lenses used in these telescopes are not high in magnification, it also means that the territory has the technology to independently produce transparent glass and grind glass lenses.

Although the people in the glass manufacturing workshop are hired by the lord from the Holy City at a high price.

Money is not omnipotent, but money can do a lot of things.

The water arc magnifying mirror created by the Eagle Eye Technique can be superimposed on the telescope, allowing the observation distance of the officers of the territory to extend from 800 meters to more than 4 kilometers, and the distance of high-altitude detection can be further extended.

For example, the riverside camp that is now reflected in the mirror has the prototype of a mixed-species town.

Dozens of smoke rises slowly, and the gnoll supervisor drives the goblins to turn over the land and irrigate the river. Simple fishing boats wander around the dock, fishing for abundant fish in the river.

They are farming, expanding and building this camp. The telescope provides the captain with information that this camp already has a blacksmith shop, altar, large warehouse, and equipment manufacturing plant.

Their development speed is not slow, but compared with the lords with system assistance, it is not good enough.

If left alone, this camp may form a small town, a mixed-species camp with clear classes or even a city-state.

The captain put down the telescope in his hand, and a cruise fleet consisting of six airships was slowly descending from the clouds.